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Old fashioned apple pie

I write to tell you how much I miss you. Over here we receive small rations of food and there are even sometimes when we don't receive food at all. The food we eat consists of coffee, canned foods, hardtack, salt pork, and more. Even though I am doing well and eating okay, I miss your delicious cooking. The thing I miss the most about your cooking is your mouthwatering old fashioned apple pie. The recipe to this astonishing masterpiece is: 5 green apples (peeled and sliced), 1 teaspoon nutmeg, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, and 1 cup molasses. Hopefully when I come back home, I will be able to taste your heavenly desert once again.

Dear Susan, As you know today is my adoption day, but we are on the run from the dreadful yanks. My wonderful general has baked me and my regiments a cake to congratulate me. I broke down in tears at the thoughtfulness he shows even in such a dire time as this one. Our general has some humor and that is what we love about him, he wrote HAIL DIXIE on the cake. I hope y’all are really safe and that the yanks have not marched on our home. As we exit this dreadful time I really hope to see you again and until that time I will keep praying for your safety. With love Sergeant Fred Bloom Jr.

Everyday I am away from you I become more and more longing for your sugar sweet voice and your soft embrace, and though I think of you every moment of the day I fear I cannot last much longer. This bloody war the north have started will, I fear, will be the death of the south and the safety of the black man. This war has thought me more than a school could ever teach a man. I was thinking of our little boy and I was wondering how his schooling was going and if he would like a rifle and the proper equipment, this would be hard to come by but if he found pleasure in these items I would be more than delighted to oblige.